Philip K. Dick died in March of 1982. After his death, Hanson Robotics created a robot in the likeness of the author. It was one of the most advanced of its time, programmed to respond to questions and capable of quoting at length from the author's works. It was a fairly sophisticated artificial intelligence. It wouldn't pass a Turing Test. Many of its responses seemed random or non sequitur. It tended to make statements or offer quotations totally...